Statistically, only 1 in 4 time travel anime are good

Yours is the most low IQ post in the thread, congratulations.

You already arranged them in the right order

Subaru is the best part of the show. The whole story is about his growth as a person.

Erased and Steins;Gate are shit

If he's the best part, it's not wonder why it's so garbage

Rendering I guess. The other 3 are too basic with Erased not even trying.

Should I watch the one that has the girl in the swimsuit? She looks like sex.

Not really. Even then, a pathetic incel like him doesn’t belong in the series. Imagine focusing on a smelly jumpsuit cuck when there are badass warriors and magicians yikes. But NEET self insert is what sells copies/BDs at the end of the day

You only hold this opinion because it's trendy to hate on time travel now

Summertime Rendering is really good.

Or maybe it's because time travel is usually cheap consequence-erasing trash. If normalfags are starting to understand that too then all the better.

STR was decent.
I didn't like Steins;Gate at all.
Re:Zero I understand what they were going for but I don't think it worked.
Erased was also decent.

Hot blondie spotted

wait a second the brown is even cuter

Cute brown spotted

holy shit the dark haired one is super cute as well and wears a suit!

goddamn an image that keeps on giving

Steins;Gate is a billion times better in the VN. Summertime Rendering shits the bed during the second half. Erased is pretty good throughout, though the time skip gimmick itself is just a total asspull and like 80% of the story could work without it just fine. Re:Zero is total shit from beginning to end.

You realize they're all holding lethal weapons right?

What a slut. I wish she would look at me like that.

bruh, every basic time-travel plot is about consequences being really hard to erase. literally filtered.

damn, I looped 7688 times and mayuri dies

Stein's Gate is the best but Summertime in Rendering has the best girl animation so it's the best.

It's "hard" to erase the consequences but they still do it in the end. Time travel is like glorified resurrection, everyone knows resurrecting someone is cheap but suddenly it's okay to make a show about a guy jumping into a time machine to fix every problem in the story.

None of these anime deserve more than a 7/10 but erased is the best one there.

Too bad that it got forgotten right after airing.

Kurisu is sex

Summertime Rendering is the only good one.

I did not care for time travel.

This. It's still one of the best anime of the 2010s and that's the last decade that anime as a whole was good.

Rendering is easily better. 2010s had some insanely strong manga adaptations but everything else sucked in comparison to 2020s

For me it's Re:Zero, unironically.

All of those are shit thoughbeitever

Based

none of these are really bad, erased is definitely slop though

It's about the journey, not the destination.
You're saying it like time travel is a means to rez someone for the plot to beat Freeza and akin to the dragonballs. You heard that death removes "stakes" which are very important in a shonen series and that "stakes" consists of deaths in the fight against Freeza.

This does not apply to a series that spends 20 episodes on the time loops and the main conflict is "can I rez someone? will I manage to do it?". The story then ends when that is resolved and the main character either manages to do it or not. (It can also be put into question whether it's resurrection if it's unclear what the "main timeline" is in the first place.)
In short, it cannot be called a "stake" when it's the main conflict of the story. You're applying shonen logic to a different type of story beat where that does not apply. It's simply structurally nonsense.

I wouldn't say that OP's pic are bad anime but I don't think any of them are genuinely good either.

Steins;Gate is highly overrated.

Nobody can have real opinions

Stakes and consequences are not just for shounenshit and kids. They are fundamental to good storytelling.
You can have a story about a man asking "can I resurrect someone with time travel?" and then just let them do it consequence free, and you are allowed to like that story. But it's still cheap.

Oh anon. There are no good time travel anime:)

STR is a fun time, worth watching at least

Never watched erased, but I say that S:G is probably the best. I like re:zero but the series is very long with different arcs varying in quality, while the other 3 are short by comparison. STR is good but the second half isn't great.

I wish she would look at me with a completely ordinary expression

We get it, you're a touch starved virgin.

Madoka

Steins was good. VN was better.
Re:Zero was very good for the first two thirds of S1, then it turned to shit and stayed that way.
Never saw the other two. Are they good?

I think there was some discussion of STR afterwards, about as much for a normal good show that's not a breakout hit

People really exaggerate the cuck aspect of erased. It wasn't bad.

cuck

You can if it's more complicated than that. For example, Herakles enters the underworld as a trial, punches their dog and frees a friend or that other guy who tries to bring back the dead but fails at the last minute (neither actually free the dead, but it already gets into weird territory since they visit the place).
Okabe's story is that he discovered time travel, but that leads to Mayuri's death, and he doesn't undo that except by undo-ing all the changes he had made before by using the machine.
Point is, I refuse to accept a stance as extreme as "in Groundhog Day, technically the protagonist died in one loop, therefore bad."

Primer. The ones in the OP image suck.

Time travel and other tropes (skinwalkers in this case) make things too complicated.
Higurashi was already complicated.
S;G is just relatable enough to not confuse people and interesting enough to draw in a crowd. I don't know anyone in real life who watched Summer Time Rendering.

I'll just say that any time travel media with

muh timelines

muh multiple universes

is complete dogshit

Is that just all time travel media or is there some kind of separation between them?

not him but the problem with stories that have time travel as a regular occurrence is that they often hit the same beats; there's not a lot of variation upon the trend.
Butterfly effect; "my lover forgot me oh nooo"; groundhog day
that's pretty much it.

That’s the problem. Steins;Gate is agonisingly boring and basic.

The best time traveling media is when the characters close the loop and find a solution to the problem they were having.
Which doesn't need multi timelines slop

1/5

Groundhog Day? Steins;Gate?

90% of people get their opinions from what other people regurgitate to them and barely think for themselves.

In Groundhog Day all the protagonist is trying to do is escape, he's not trying to undo meaningful consequences that have happened to him prior.
Okabe fucks up causing Mayuri to die, gets the chance to undo it, and then gets the chance to undo Kurisu's death on top of it. Consequences are a foreign concept in that story.

why is anime christina so derp?

IMO trying to build an entire narrative around the intricacies of time travel is bound to be tedious and ultimately stupid, it works better as a "don't think to hard about it" plot device to jump around to different time periods and see cool stuff.

The best use of "muh timelines" that I've seen was in Concrete Revolutio, where it isn't actually the main focus of the story, and time travel doesn't seem to be that useful to the characters using it.

Western movies and shows unironically did time travel better.

Maybe I'm crazy but I think Erased is the best of those by far.

They fucked up Huke's artstyle

Summer and Rezero are good though, so 2 in 4.

they should finna had made him grow by having puck rape him anally